TNT Last Night (Video)

Mike and I had a pretty good night at the track. Track condition was marginal on the line but much better down track than it has been. We did get in 3 good straight passes and one throw away after I got greedy with the timing and blew the tires off. The Racepak Sportsman data logger was definitely a big help in diagnosing on what was going down. We just need to get to a good track for some testing and go from there. Mikey, I think maybe I see a Silverdollar in our future

Just say the word Grandpa !!!

Looked like some good passes. What's with the smoke at the end of the runs?

ThndrChkn wrote:Looked like some good passes. What's with the smoke at the end of the runs?

Thanks! Not sure what that was. I didn't notice it myself until I replayed the videos on my camera after the last run, but it's definitely something I will be looking into.

I just found a photo was taken yesterday at the track by the track photographer and posted on SRD's homepage. Whenever he post them up on his web page I'll have to order a few copies. That's my nephew Damon, (my body guard ) looking over my shoulder while I was programing the MSD. Looks like I need a new Trick Flow hat

Looks good Doug..................

Nice passes!

Doug Rahn wrote:

ThndrChkn wrote:Looked like some good passes. What's with the smoke at the end of the runs?

Thanks! Not sure what that was. I didn't notice it myself until I replayed the videos on my camera after the last run, but it's definitely something I will be looking into.

I think it might be trans fluid.... Rememeber I said it was running "Warmer" ???

Car looks & sounds damn nice guys. That semi flat black paint is killer.

Looking at the video frame by frame it has a decent amount of initial suspension separation/leverage driving the rim downward & planting/wadding-up the sidewall. It does look to have some amount of initial tire rotation before the actual hook, but it's hard to say exactly how much without a stripe on the sidewall.

It kinda looks like maybe the rear shock extension valving is set towards the looser end of the adjustment range, or the I/C placement is in the more aggressive range. But the effect might also be from maybe needing some more air pressure.

Keep after it guys.

looks n sounds great ,, i think ya can get 1 o them Trick flow hats at the Bash:)

what tire # are yall running , looks like the rim is about to eat the track ...... great passes btw , looks like i need to step things up a little

ThndrChkn wrote:Looked like some good passes. What's with the smoke at the end of the runs?

Tire rub from growth?

I've been out in the shop this morning to start cleaning up the car for a car show at work that Mikey asked me about putting it in. Well, it turned out to be tire smoke, but not from growth. After watching the videos a million times and this morning when I took the wheels and tires off to clean them up, I noticed where the tire had rubbed in the wheel tub. Right where you see the smoke is where the track transitions from concrete to asphalt and there's a slight dip in the track. The car was squatting down in the dip and the tires rubbed. Fixed

bruno wrote:what tire # are yall running , looks like the rim is about to eat the track ...... great passes btw , looks like i need to step things up a little

Thanks Nick! The tires are 29.5 x 10.5W. I've been working real hard to get it down the track straight and it's starting to pay off. We just need a really good track to test on so we can start cranking some power back in it.